How common is the surname Szymanski?

8,748 people in the United States had the surname Szymanski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,293 Americans. It ranked 4,059th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Szymanski?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Szymanski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Szymanski getting more or less common?

Less common. 8,813 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,748 in 2010, down 0.7%.

The surname Szymanski

A Polish surname, carried by 8,748 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S552

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Szymanski is more common than 97.5% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

From Polish Szymański.

One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,748 people named Szymanski in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 35,293 Americans. That is down 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,813.

#4,059

rank among US surnames

8,748

people in 2010

3.0

per 100,000 Americans

-0.7%

change since 2000 (was #3,697)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,050	Kirsch	8,764	35,229
#4,051	Back	8,762	35,237
#4,052	Arsenault	8,760	35,245
#4,053	Spring	8,757	35,257
#4,054	Winstead	8,756	35,261
#4,055	Mount	8,754	35,269
#4,056	Munn	8,751	35,281

Who is named Szymanski

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

97% of people named Szymanski identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Szimanski

Szymanski has the Soundex code S552, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S552.

Other Polish surnames

All 304 Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Szymanski come from?: From Polish Szymański.
How common is the surname Szymanski?: 8,748 people in the United States had the surname Szymanski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,293 Americans. It ranked 4,059th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Szymanski?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Szymanski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Szymanski getting more or less common?: Less common. 8,813 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,748 in 2010, down 0.7%.
What are other spellings of Szymanski?: Szimanski.